Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

Three ladies were drowned at Kanawha
Falls while out boat-ridiDg.
Earthquake shocks were felt on Long
Island Wednesday afternoon.
Rufus Blodgett has been elected United
States Senator in New Jersey.
An exhibition of food productions is to
be held at Amsterdam, Holland
Jack Loring of Boston defeated Patsey
Gallagher of London in four rounds.
The Maine Senate again passed the wom-
an suffrage constitutional amendment.
An unknown lady was found dead in
bed in hotel at Denver on Wednesday.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton of ]. l.. Hanna TO be Postmaster of
Oakland.
Colonel Glider has returned to Winni-
peg, having given up reaching the North
Pole this year.
Charles III. Dawes, auditor of the Pull
man Palace Car Company, was foundidead
yesterday morning.
Italy has not pledged herself to give mu-
tual support to either France or Germany
in the event of war.
Sir John Macdonald is to resign the Pre-
riership of the Dominion, and go to Lon
don as High Commissioner
Governor Perry, of Florida, has ap-
pointed General J. J. Finley United States
Senator to succeed Hon. Charles w. Jones.
The nomination of ]. W. Trotter (col-
ored) to be Recorder of Deeds for the Dis
trict of Columbia has been rejected by the
Senate
Rev. Charles W Ward, who shot his wife
and himself last week. is slowly improv-
ing. When he gets well he will probably
be prosecuted by his wife's relatives
The Directors of The Mexican Central
Railroad voted TO pay full interest in cash
in future upon their 4-per-cent bonds, as
well as on their old scrip and debentures.
At Akron, O., Henry Heppert, son of
wealthy business man, was sentenced to
one years imprisonment at hard labor. for
betraying under promise of marriage,
schoolgirl aged IA years.
A special from Yazoo City, Mississippi,
says two colored men, Thos. and Terry
Mack, were lynched at Sidon by disguised
mob. The Macks were notorious charac-
tiers and were hanged for incendiarism.
George Smith, who was recently buried
in snow-slide at Mineral King and sup
posed to be killed, succeeded in getting free
and making his way from the mountains
| to the nearest settlement on Kaweah river.
Pensions have been granted to the fol-
| lowing named Californians: Jane Frazier,
Oakland; James NJ. Neal, Guerneville;
Theodore G. West, San Francisco: George
w. Martin, Oakland; James E. Dumphey.
Camptonville.
The Dominion Minister of Customs is
preparing bill which. it has been stated,
will be presented to Parliament in case the
United States Congress should pass the re-
taliation measures. The bill will largely
increase the duties on American imports.
A severe shock of earthauske was felt
on Wednesday at Reggia di Calabri, Italy,
and two slight shocks occurred at Diane
Marino. The people fear further disasters,
because Of the excessive heat and the fact
that the sea has not returned to the ordi-
nary level.
General Boulanger has decided that in
the future no officer in the army shall be
allowed to have in bis service any foreigner
of either sex. The decree is aimed at the
governess of General Davoust's children.
who has been discovered to be the wife of
Prussian officer.
treaty between the United States and
the King of Tonga was concluded last Oc-
tober, and submitted to the Senate on Feb
tuary 18th. Among other privileges il per-
mts this country to establish a coaling sta
ton in Tonga. The treaty will probably
be acted upon this session.
There have been numerous landslides on
the Canadian Pacific along the Fraser
and Thompson-river canyons No mails
have been received at Victoria in five days,
and none are expected for several DAYS
more. The Fraser river is blockaded with
ice, and navigation is stopped to New
Westminster.
The Manchester Guardian says: Leading
politicians contend that the gold standard
is the root of all such evils as the depres
sion of trade and agriculture and the
vexei land question of Great Britain. Par
lament will be able to deal tffectually
with these questions only by the adoption
of bimetallic currency.